Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health – Competing and Complementary Epistemes
Competing and Complementary Epistemes
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 278;
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Product details:
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date of Publication 28 October 2025
- ISBN 9781836245643
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 234x156x15 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 Illustrations, unspecified 700
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Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health focuses on exploring the role of different ‘ways of knowing’ or arriving at truth, i.e. epistemes, particularly those found in religious and alternative health milieus. While biomedical solutions offer a dominant narrative, these are articulated differently in global contexts. Moreover, individuals often draw upon alternative framings that are sometimes oppositional to and at other times engaged with directives from medical and governmental authorities.
The focus of this volume is worldviews and epistemes that are often marginalised or rejected in dominant discourses — from shamanism in Korea to African Pentecostalism in Britain, and from global online ‘AntiVax’ narratives to traditional Siddha medicine in South India. Detailed case studies explore the contested, competing and strategically aligned relationships between mainstream and marginal epistemes; between religious healing, spirituality and biomedicine; and between politics and belief. These explorations promote greater insight into how marginalised religious epistemes are employed. Which beliefs and practices are drawn upon to create meaningful and effective responses? And how can we better understand the depth and breadth of these reactions to design more successful public health strategies for future global health crises?
"The studies in this volume present deep, thoughtful and nuanced reflections on the difficult subject of medicine across cultures and across epistemes. It is too easy to approach health issues, especially public health, in oppositional terms, with hard boundaries regarding clinical testing, health insurance and professional licensing. All such boundaries are in various degrees permeable and imperfect. Nobody wishes to exclude the critical health support that can be provided by the priest, the mother, the friend, the herb, the prayer, the community. All these issues have been thrown into stark relief by the experience of COVID-19 that, if anything, has taught us all how complicated appropriate health care can be in practice. This volume offers some of the best contemporary thinking on these difficult subjects." Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus of Classical Indian History, University of Alberta
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